france's military confirms it's guarding one of the biggest uranium mines in. all its owners say they want to mining deal with could be looking for other world wide . strains prime minister travels to germany ahead of.

economic troubles and corruption allegations remain for him at home. the artistic director of moscow's a world famous bolshoi ballet heads to germany for a specialist i treatment for saying he knows who is behind the violent acid attack on him that occurred two weeks ago. this is from a very snowy moscow. share with world wide top stories right now and the president has confirmed that the french troops have been guarding one of the country's biggest you're a new mines it's all in a bid to avoid a repetition of last month's hostage crisis in neighboring algeria let's go the details right now thomas joins us live right here in the studio good to see you

today french troops already in mali and now we've got some boots on the ground because they need to protect. this is that correct yes certainly it's been an interesting situation developing for a while now and we've had some thoughts but now it has been confirmed in fact president confirms that france has sent special forces troops to his country specifically to guard one of the largest during your minds and there in fact it's the arlette mine right here. and you can see its proximity to mali but the mine in question is the location in which the french company a river has a large stake now there have been problems before the. that would justify a move to increase the security presence there just three years ago five french workers were kidnapped from the arlette mined by islamists four of those hostages are still being held in the region today now it's important to know that this is the second mission in africa completely separate from france's mission in mali. and it's been going which has been going on for nearly

a month as neighbors mali and the situation there continues to remain unstable the french government is making it clear that they are ready and willing to protect their assets in the region and on the african continent as a whole protecting assets in the region many know that france gets most of its energy from nuclear power hence the uranium is very very important indeed so massive economic concerns are indeed but as you also mentioned we've called the french led multinational intervention going in mali now boots on the ground in nigeria it's certainly getting a lot of reaction from critics around the world at the moment certainly has been if you ask france they've pointed to the incident that happened last month in eastern algeria when islam ists took over a gas plant there eventually leading to forty eight people being killed thirty seven of those foreign workers france's predicting that more islamist retaliation to french presence in africa is likely and they say they want to prevent a tragic situation like this from happening again but then again the world's fifth largest producer of uranium

a product that is vital to the french economy in fact it's estimated that nearly all or at least seventy five percent of france's electric infrastructure is dependent on nuclear power given this it makes sense that france would want to protect that resource at all cost the president has welcomed the french presence in the country and recognizes the need for the added security but has also stated that they want to better deal when it comes to uranium exports meijers economy is also largely dependent on your radio as well critics have already been wary of french involvement in mali claiming that the real motivation is a return to imperialism economic policy and a stronger control over a region that used to be french territory. now with france's expansion into neighboring countries compiled with president expressing his concerns those critics now have a bit more that they can chew on and certainly over to the critics are talking about about a for imperialist ideologies and also saying that it appears that french troops apparently this point of fanning across the region certainly hotting up the thomas

thank you. well while the president francois hollande may be hailing the ongoing french military campaign in west africa as a success that's more than can be said about his politics back at home but the story now from paris and our tears maria finish. well president on land is welcomed as a liberator in mali after france's military operation against the islamists occupation back at home crowds are also gathered but with a starkly different mood where people are fired up over the continued decline of europe's second largest economy despite the president's promises to create at least one hundred thousand new jobs the nation is shedding them at an alarming rate last november about a thousand every day the worst figures in years the country's unemployment is approaching a shocking eleven percent with more than three million jobless the french daily live on claims that the exact situation could be even worse if official statistics

included youngsters never registered for the unemployment program or those who left it and those stuck with part time work the paper says the rate would then triple but there are certain. people expected to have a strong president and they understand that on doesn't have enough experience for competence to improve things the last two weeks as we see from. the fans who are so you know believes the strategic mistake was to rectify the e.u.'s so-called three percent treaty force in france to reduce its budget deficit down from four point five percent by hiking taxes and cutting spending. but while harsh criticism expected from the opposition disapprovals also been growing from like minded left wingers like a president i think the president especially of a country like france one of six e.u. foreigners should be strong enough to say stop to others and say hey i have my nation behind me and they elected me to make changes instead he surrendered because he's more worried about the country's debt and the ratings agencies make. in

a short video french communists put together some of our lawns major presidential campaign vows none of which they say came true. look what that's. the value added tax increase. i think it's inappropriate and unjustified and unreasonable and too hasty. what happened to well that's to remind the present with you remember you promised to review the european treaty you didn't do that here in germany said a three percent deficit isn't real but now only say it's possible etc etc you can't not do what you promised meanwhile recent polls show a little rise in the fringes of the great team into four percent january december's forty percent the more you see salons to office in maine. every week that is a new subject to discuss in the french media and to draw people's attention from the real problems like gay manager deprived you are now molly this strategy may

work but not for long. after a long and wonder french election last year some analysts described his victory as a victory against his predecessor. rather the first round now of these things many feel has to be there. in the. months of a lens presidency have been anything but sunny and even his one staunch supporters predict even harder times lie ahead for the leader of the country's municipal elections in two thousand and fourteen have historically held great significance and will show whether the voters can forget and forgive. me. from paris. and i just days ahead of a crucial set of budget talks the leader of the blocs toughest economy is meeting the head of one of its weakest german chancellor angela merkel will join forces with spain's prime minister. to discuss the eurozone crisis though roy is facing

criticism back at home with corruption allegations and the opposition calling ever louder for him to step down avoid us from berlin with r.t. correspondent peter. it could very well be called a meeting between the euro zone's haves and well quite frankly the have nots as german chancellor angela merkel sits down to talks with the spanish prime minister mariano what are quite germany still widely regarded as the euro zone's only real success economically while as many fear that spain could go the way of greece now the spanish prime minister will receive the full welcome of germany including full military honors however if he was to turn up at the doorstep of many in his own country he may face severe criticism that's because many spanish citizens still think he hasn't done enough to deal with bank has the same basically the bearings are of this huge incredible feast run only by you agreed the governments are not

helping the people the topping the banks it has been at least thirty or fifty times the issue in the last month that there was three people they were going to be if you have to find out how it is but they hang themselves before the police were right there. only any i feel really sad when someone is thrown out because he has no one who can take care of him. this meeting between the leaders of germany and spain comes ahead of a very important summit taking place this week where european leaders will try and decide on the budget something which is separated countries within the union thus far. and in the meantime a professor at boston university laurence kotlikoff believes the crisis is rooted in the way the banking system is operated in an interview with r.t. so if you have a nazi he said the banks need to be more transparent in order to gain the people's

trust. the traditional banking system the model is one of very high leverage banks borrow a lot of money promised to repay and then there's opacity they take their money and they do something with it but they don't tell you what they're doing with it so it's a very unstable situation when you promise people things and then what you're doing with their money. and that's what happened with lehman brothers. merrill lynch and all these companies that were not one under one after the other everybody started worrying because they couldn't see the assets so what we need to do is. get rid of this faith based banking we need to have. no leverage and we have to have transparency.

and a culture of the full interview with economists to laurence kotlikoff that is about eighteen forty five g.m.t. . but for now the artistic director of moscow's bolshoi ballet is travelling to germany for specialist treatment after a violent acid attack against him just over two weeks ago doctors there will be trying to help to save sort of the feelings i cite a reporting from the hospital where it was taken as. he is doing rather well surprisingly well actually he did thank the doctors for doing everything in their power to pull him out of a very difficult situation that he found himself in he did suffer third degree burns and those are very severe to his face and neck he said he's full of hope for a full recovery and he is full of willpower and he actually looked very enthusiastic and upbeat about the whole situation of course considering his

circumstances actually he did appear to be quite so on his road to recovery he did speak about person who is who has been supposedly behind the attack he did say that he knows exactly who it was on this particular day today they did not want to talk about the investigation at all so as not to interfere with the investigation he did however mention. he did you ever see threats before but he also mentioned and this is important according to city feeling himself he didn't mention that he's continuing to work with everybody who has been left in charge of the bolshoi theater he said that nothing in the voice of a theater is changing and the performances and everything about the theater will be carrying on as before. they had. a presumption of guilt. something coming to us now are guilty until proven innocent

a cia veteran points the finger of his former employer saying the agency is compulsory polygraph tests all beyond the law and simply ineffective details on that in just a couple of minutes. there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people we live with. this is a problem. they were.

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economy. thanks so much for joining us here on. turning our attention now to kuwait where an opposition activist has reportedly been sentenced to five years in prison for criticizing the country's unelected rule on twitter is the third time a person has been convicted on such charges in that country but just just over the last two months now speaking out against the mayor of kuwait who considered to be a state security charge going to the international recently hit out of the monarchy for increasing where strictures on freedom of expression and assembly protests have been raging against the government on its crackdown with dissent this going back to two thousand and eleven tension flared even more after december's parliamentary poll which was boycotted by the opposition m.p.

claims the country's democracy has been disfigured. and if. we refute claims that the national assembly represents the people of kuwait around seventy percent of the people boycotted the election and the assembly itself was elected thanks to an unconstitutional decree passed by the government which wanted a parliament it could control its lawmakers have failed to address widespread allegations of corruption. democracy in kuwait has taken a twisted form it is the only democracy which is seeing an increase of corruption we will continue to hold peaceful marches and peaceful rallies and we will continue to gather and protest. and want are now to another monarchy that has its own problems with the opposition that of bahrain as we get into the of the world up there now and the regime protestors there once again clashed with police in various parts of the country and the authorities used tear gas against the crowds which

were hurling fire bombs at the gulf kingdom has been cracking down on pro-reform demonstrators for two years arresting thousands including some very well known activists and the government claims it's taken steps to address the brutality of the security forces but opposition campaigners say daily assaults continue unabated . the number of victims from a suicide bomb attack on a group of al-qaeda fighters has risen to nineteen and more than forty wounded the incident took place as many gathered to collect their salaries outside an office in a town just north of baghdad and the blast does come a day after several suicide attackers targeted a provincial police headquarters in kind of cook and that killed fifteen and wounded dozens. a skeleton found under a car park in the city of leicester in the u.k. has been confirmed is that of king richard the third of the monarch was last in the list with scuse me the last english king to be killed in battle that goes back to fourteen eighty five but his grave was lost in the sixteenth century after the

demolition of the church he was buried next to the remains will be reinterred at leicester cathedral with the details of the reburying ceremony yet to be released. all right now iran says that israel will regret its latest aggression against syria and call on the entire muslim world to be ready to defend the country against the jewish state and this comes after president bashar assad claims syria could take on any force to confront said that accusing israel of trying to destabilize his nation the statements follow sunday's comments by the israeli defense minister at a security conference in germany by iraq hinted that the i.d.f. was indeed behind last week's attack on a syrian arms convoy apparently destined for hezbollah militants in lebannon moscow and the arab league criticized for the alleged strike saying it's against international law or beirut based the middle east expert says damascus has

a covert means if needed to retaliate against israeli aggression. for now i don't believe that there will be all out military warfare although we have to remember that husband law is one of syria's allies iran is also one of syria's allies and it's important to note here that the the head of the supreme national security council the iranian supreme national security council side really have more not respond directly with a direct you know conventional army to conventional army warfare but there might be other means used targeting for example certain israeli officials stirring the trouble for israel in general and i think that that's something which syria is an expert at doing syria has on the bus travel outside and also on the his father has been a source of concern for a very long time for the israeli side of his role once the fall because this will basically break down the iranian husband lost syrian access which is the biggest

threat to the not of your government. and on our website right now you can find a report that claims british police have been stealing the identities of dead children and using them to go undercover against political activists. disturbing details that are to dot com. plus the russian city which was host to one of the pivotal battles of world war two could work claimants for my name on the country's soviet leader joseph stalin a lot of that online on our website. thousands of people in america are forced to undergo polygraph testing every year old in the name of national security and some experts are ringing the alarm over u.s. federal agencies exceeding their legal and ethical limits to determine who could be trusted more on this now to our correspondent more important. for more than three decades john sullivan worked as a polygraph examiner for america's central intelligence agency today the retired

cia employee is offering some strong opinions about the nation's lie detector policy too many honest people are too many people who should be passing their tests aren't and i and there's no there's no accountability for that. last year more than seventy three thousand americans were reportedly required to undergo polygraph tests in order to get or keep jobs with the federal government according to an investigation by mcclatchy newspapers a growing number of u.s. agencies are asking employees and applicants intimate questions that extend way beyond the realm of national security probing matters such as sexual conduct financial matters and past personal relationships a woman was pressured to talk about her experience being molested as a child and when the polar bear for said that he refused to go on with the interrogation he alleges the. he was pressured to go back and continue and tara

gating or a decade ago the national academies an organization advising washington on scientific matters urged the feds to stop using polygraphs as a screening technique scientists found that polygraphs aren't reliable enough to prevent innocent people from failing and deceptive candidates from passing i think it's important to understand that the polygraph is not just. for screening it's an interrogation tool when there is a question that they trip that leads to an indication of deception the drilling down in the issue of questions that they get asked may well be quite true over the past ten years at least fifteen federal agencies including the n.s.a. and f.b.i. have reportedly continued or expanded their polygraph screenings with nearly five

million people having access to classified information washington maintains that polygraph testing is the most effective way from preventing secrets from being leaked lisa ribicoff is an independent polygraph examiner and investigator who uses the polygraph program designed by homeland security she contends that it's ninety eight percent accurate i do think that there are some questions pertaining to some emotional aspects and personal situations should not be included but i do understand why they're included on the basis of that the government needs to see how exactly what their breaking point is what are they willing to discuss what are they not willing to discuss however applicants who are denied a coveted position after failing a polygraph are prohibited from accessing the records of their interrogation and are often barred from contesting the results or filing complaints in federal court in two thousand and four the cia veteran who conducted lie detector interrogations for thirty one years failed his own screen. there was absolutely no question in my

mind that the test was right you know it's this was a terrible test sullivan lost his security clearance and was denied a job with a federal contracting agency he claims his examiner falsified the results possible retribution for solving his book detailing america's polygraph system subject come in for a polygraph test now are guilty until proven innocent and i think that's. a corruption and an abuse of the process the obama administration is now promising to draft a new national polygraph policy that would prevent agencies from pushing legal or ethical boundaries during screenings but at the moment the program has no oversight or accountability meaning tens of thousands of u.s. citizens will continue getting personally propes in the name of national security bring up or not artsy new york. but i certainly hope you can stay with us here and i'll tell you no just a minute or two we bring you to follow parts of

a feature length documentary on the occupy movement or the ripple effects of which are still being felt across america. secretary of state hillary clinton recently testified to congress in regards to the attack on the u.s. consulate was killed an american ambassador in benghazi libya during the testimony couldn't rather calmly said things like that the revolutions that sprang up during the arab spring like in libya where the events in bali have created instability and safe havens for terrorists and she made it clear that there is no doubt that the algerian terrorists had weapons from libya so the u.s.

secretary has. is equally admitted that the actions of the usa and nato have caused a mass instability that has allowed the seeds of terrorism to grow when the justification for most of the actions in the muslim world is to stop evil dictators who harbor terrorists or spread chatting to mock recy if libya would have been left alone algerian terrorists wouldn't be getting any weapons from it now this is like an exterminator accidently or maybe on purpose actually feeding the roaches in your basements that there are ten times more of them and then saying that he has to keep working because he's the only one who can get rid of the roaches people like hillary clinton who support funding brutal jihad it's rebel groups to overthrow governments to somehow bring about stability and democracy are either dismally stupid or consciously running a very brutal con game but that's just my opinion. well

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